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  Greek alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The letters are also used to represent numbers—Greek numerals—in the same sorts of contexts as Roman numerals.
Besides writing modern Greek, today its letters are used as mathematical symbols, particle names, as names of stars, in the names of fraternities and sororities, in the naming of supernumerary tropical cyclones, and for other purposes.
The letter σ is even written ς at the ends of words, paralleling the use of the long and short s at the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_alphabet   (1656 words)

  
 H (letter) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about H (letter)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Eighth letter of the English alphabet, representing an aspirate in all modern alphabets derived from the Latin except in those languages, especially the Romance languages, where the aspirate is dropped.
It was called heth or kheth in the Semitic, Greek, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets from which it is derived.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /H+(letter)   (224 words)

  
 Pern Encyclopedia - D
Her father objected on the grounds that a union was already arranged for her (with Ganmar).
He had even planned to keep her at home, even though Debera was Searched and he had received a letter inviting her to attend the Hatching as a candidate.
Heth and his rider K'van answered the distress call first [GWHD/31].
www.pern.nl /pe/d1.htm   (3347 words)

  
 GYTHIUM - Online Information article about GYTHIUM
littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e.
appearance of the letter often varies considerably as regards the space between and the length of the uprights.
half of this letter F, while the smooth breathing ' was the right-hand portion -4.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/GYTHIUM.html   (1876 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cleophas
This view is based on the identification of Mary, the mother of James etc. (Mark 15:40) with Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the consequent identity of Alphaeus, father of James (Mark 3:18), with Clopas.
Etymologically, however, the identification of the two names offers serious difficulties: (1) Although the letter Heth is occasionally rendered in Greek by Kappa at the end and in the middle of words, it is very seldom so in the beginning, where the aspirate is better protected; examples of this, however, are given by Levy (Sem.
(3) The Syriac versions have rendered the Greek Clopas with a Qoph, not with a Heth, as they would have done naturally had they been conscious of the identity of Clopas and Halpai; Alphaeus is rendered with Heth (occasionally Aleph).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04048b.htm   (483 words)

  
 Libra
Muslim esotericism transposed these scales (mizan) to the planes of language and writing, the 'scales of letters', striking the same balance between letters and language as that between what the former denoted and their essential nature.
To bring the beam of such scales to the horizontal was undoubtedly to have attained to supreme wisdom (CORT, CORI, DEVA, EVAB, GUEM, SOUJ).
By the Kabalists, Libra is associated with the Hebrew letter Heth and the 8
www.winshop.com.au /annew/Libra.html   (4042 words)

  
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